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The Top Ten: The Best Royal Jewels of 2016

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The Best Royal Jewels of 2016: #6 (Kate’s Royal Loans)

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Our countdown of the best royal jewels of 2016 continues with spot #6. (Catch up on the previous posts in our top ten over here!)
#6: Kate’s Royal Loans
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For years, many of us had been hoping that the Duchess of Cambridge would begin wearing more pieces from the royal vaults. In 2016, we got our wish, thanks to a whole lot of jewelry loans from the Queen to Kate. Above, she wears the diamond chandelier earrings that the Queen loaned to her shortly after her marriage for an EACH gala at Houghton Hall in June.

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At the Houghton Hall event, she also wore the diamond Art Deco bracelet that was made from one of Queen Mary’s choker necklaces. (More images from this event here!)

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For her second trip to Canada, Kate borrowed the Queen’s Diamond Maple Leaf Brooch for a second time. She wore it multiple times during the trip; above, she paired it with her tanzanite earrings for her arrival in Victoria. (See more images of Kate wearing the brooch during the trip here!)

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In Canada, Kate also debuted a new pair of earrings borrowed from the Queen: the small diamond and pearl earrings that the Queen wore during her Silver Jubilee celebrations. The earrings really shone during Kate’s first foreign solo trip — a visit to the Netherlands in October. Photographers even captured her wearing the earrings while looking at another famous Girl with a Pearl Earring during the trip. (More images, including an earring close-up, over here!)

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On Remembrance Sunday, Kate wore the Queen’s Bahrain Pearl Earrings. The earrings were made using pearls given to the Queen by the nation of Bahrain as a wedding present in 1947. (More from Remembrance Sunday over here!)

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Kate debuted another pair of diamond earrings from the Queen’s jewelry box in November, when she attended a reception at Mansion House in London. (More images over here!)

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For the annual diplomatic reception in December, Kate wore a trio of jewels loaned by the Queen: the Lover’s Knot Tiara, diamond earrings, and the diamond bracelet that Prince Philip designed for the Queen as a wedding present in 1947. (More over here!)

British Royal Christmas Jewels 2016

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The Windsors walk to church on Christmas (Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

The Queen’s under the weather and the Cambridges are in Berkshire, but that didn’t stop the Windsors from bringing us a bit of Christmas sparkle this weekend. Here’s a look at the jewels that the royal ladies wore for Christmas 2016.

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The Duchess of Cornwall was the senior royal lady on the traditional walk to church at Sandringham. She wore diamond and pearl earrings with her sapphire and diamond butterfly brooch.

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The Princess Royal, pictured here with Peter and Isla Phillips, wore her diamond-studded gold ribbon brooch. (You can see a better picture of it in this post.) It’s the same brooch that Anne wore on Easter Sunday this year.

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Anne’s daughter-in-law, Autumn Phillips, is always one of the best-dressed Windsors at Christmas, and this year was no exception. She paired classic pearl and diamond earrings with a gorgeous hat.

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The Countess of Wessex also looked gorgeous for Christmas; here she’s exiting the church with several other members of the family, including the Duke of Edinburgh. (Perhaps the flowers are for the Queen?)

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Sophie wore her Amrapali pave-set diamond earrings with her Christmas ensemble.

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Sophie’s daughter, Lady Louise, isn’t in jewelry-wearing mode yet, but she did wear a little fascinator to church this year. Jewelry can’t be too far off!

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No visible jewelry for Princess Beatrice, unfortunately…

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…and only the hint of a necklace from Princess Eugenie.

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The Queen’s annual Christmas Message was recorded in the Regency Room at Buckingham Palace before she came down with a cold, so we did still get a little bit of jewelry from her on Christmas Day. For this year’s message, she wore a diamond brooch set with eight pearls and three pearl pendants. It’s from the collection of Queen Victoria.

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William and Kate spent Christmas with the Middleton family this year, and they were photographed attending church on Christmas Day in Bucklebury.

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They may not have been spending the day with the Queen, but Kate wore a bejeweled reminder of her grandmother-in-law. Her earrings are the diamond and pearl pair that the Queen loaned her earlier this year.